#GreySkies #RoughCut

Adding some gloom into the late night hours of February 2017.

For all of the weirdos, the 3AM thinkers, the outcasts, the rogues.

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"The lyrics in this song are amazing; I like that the artist can tell a story, maybe one that we haven't ever heard this way, or at least I haven't but I'm enjoying listening to it".
- Random ReverbNation Crowd Review Reviewer

My latest album, Grey Skies, weaves together a tale of drug abuse, a lack of guidance and lost love over chill beats.

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My name’s Matt Dyer, a 25-year-old corporate drone by day and hobby rapper by night.

If you want the music, what I do, to be put in a box…I’d label it as…ex-addict hipster rap, at least for my new free album/mixtape, Grey Skies. While the songs have all been written recently, this is a story rooted in the past. For a project borne of heavy reflection on several poor life choices over the years, regardless, the present seeps in. The embellishment of real events and fictional narrative throughout Grey Skies is littered with a very real and ever-mounting fear of failure.

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“Anxiety, frustration, and melancholia. Autumn decay drenched in nostalgia.”

There’s a wistful, sometimes even trippy, quality mired in the lyrics. A variety of loops and instrumentation produced by a myriad of producers from across the globe provide an intimately distant vibe. Bits from stand-up comics, cartoons, shows and movies provide pop culture underpinnings to the story.

Let’s be clear -- I wrote Pink Skies first. That’s still happening, once I save enough funds, but it also makes more sense, for the ‘saga’ as a whole, to begin with Grey Skies. There’s a fair amount of allusions to Pink Skies, seeing as that’s been written since 2015, and the reverse is true as well: Pink Skies has a few references to events from Grey Skies. I’m gonna sound like more of a pretentious prick here, but the albums are also presented as alternate timelines with corresponding themes:

Grey Skies is Depression. Pink Skies is Acceptance. Blue Skies is Progression.

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“From Dusk to Dawn, wait ‘til I awaken anew.”

Dusk and Dawn, are two accompanying EP’s releasing May 30 and August 15 respectively, which add to the mythos between Grey Skies (2/14 Rough Cut, 2/21 Final) and Pink Skies, releasing October 31.

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Written, Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by M. Dyer

Instrumentals Produced by: Kannibal Beats, czzvrp, Loop Skywalker, Dopant Beats, Kerz, Gijs Gabriëls, Kawfee, NY Bangers, The Union Beats, BesideZion, flewd0